How the Strait of Hormuz saves the world’s poor from starvation

For years, climate campaigners have claimed that our food supply is under grave threat from climate change caused by excessive fossil fuel use. Ironically, the war in the Middle East is highlighting the much bigger food challenge for the world: Not having enough access to fossil fuels to make fertilizer.

Fears of climate-driven food collapse are vastly overstated, while policies aimed at rapidly curbing fossil fuel use risk making food more expensive and less accessible, especially for the world’s poorest.

To end hunger in the developing world, the poor don’t need expensive carbon cuts or organic farming mandates pushed by rich-world activists. What they actually need is greater access to affordable fertilizer.